Welcome to Litsy!

Fairly certain this is the only Argentinian author I‘ve read.

#DontCryforMeArgentina #WanderingJune

Lilacs. Language. Silence. Night. Darkness. Shadows.

Much of this collection was published posthumously and written into September of 1972, the month the author succumbed to suicide, which I did not know before reading this work. You can sense a great heaviness and the shadows she writes about so often lurking throughout.

#poetry

Negative 5 degrees here. Kids off school for 2 days. My workplace closed today. Snuggling up to read these along with some others. In & out of quite a few books right now. Expecting good things from these 2 #poetry collections.

Earlier this week the Best Translated Book Award finalist were announced! And for everyone doing the #ReadHarder2017 challenge there are 5 translated poetry collections none of which look to be about love! Hope this helps 📚

http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?s=btb

#poetry #translation

The first comprehensive collection translates into English and arranged chronologically as best I can tell. This poetry collection is dark and I loved it. Exploring themes of night, loneliness, death and madness. There are also prose poems and free verse. It's just so good! 🖤🖤🖤🖤

#translatedpoetry #Argentina #readharder #Spanish

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#prosepoetry #translation

It's been a really long time since I've read poetry. Already, the first few pages remind me it's been too long.

Bilingual #poetry

Next up! I am already behind in my goal for translations and need to read more South American authors! This should also fulfill the #readharder poetry in translation that is not about love!

#translation #Argentina #poetry #Spanish

Pizarnik's ultimate vision is a dark one, to be sure. But by the light of her brilliant language we see something in the dark that is not of the dark. So we keep reading, knowing full well it could be but a trick of the eyes.